Pledge: Working on my Hobby Studio.  Adding a straight-line laser overhead that will beam down over the table to show where the wind is coming from for Black Seas (and other sailing games).  Oh and it’s a motorized unit spin and tilt.  Remote controlled.  The metal support spanning the studio is already in place.  I just need to mount the motor unit and laser and run the wiring for charging and laser on/off.

Bonus pledge: to finally get my black background hung up behind the studio monitor to be more like the OLD ‘Beasts of War studio’s.  This project has been in the works for along time.  I have to move a lot of stuff around to get in there with that big background.  What a pain.

“Questions from the Forum Host”

Q) When not doing any tiny fighting men related hobby what are you doing in your spare time?

A) Hotrod building-custom auto body work [metal and fiberglass]+engine building, motorcycle riding currently a 1997 Honda CBR900RR – fast and nimble, astronomy, research projects of a historical nature (separating fact from fiction/lore) {this hobby tends to piss some folks off}, wooden model ship building, RC Aircraft building (these days more scratch building than building manufactured kits – I’ve built so many kits over the decades that they have gotten boring), plastic model building, and sculpting. Also I guess I need to add video making, but I’m not very good at it yet.  Still working on it.  I have more hobbies but you get the idea.  I have never been happy with sticking to just one.  Maybe ADHD?  Maybe just a lust for trying, learning and doing more?  My mind is not good with idle.

Q) How do you feel when a different hobby “takes away” time from the miniature hobby?

A) it’s ok.  Variety is the spice of life.  Most of my hobbies involve building/making.

{Was this a question or a statement?} Hobbies to intersect to a degree with each other (example 3D printing and miniatures) but are considered hobbies of their own.  A) most hobbies intersect if you look deep enough.

Q) Do you have any active hobbies that do not intersect with the main topic at hand?

A) I really do think most hobbies do intersect.  If pressed I’d have to say Astronomy?